The Dialogue across Difference (DaD) Initiative aims to model and promote the values of intellectual engagement, curiosity, empathy, active listening and critical thinking through a series of campus events, classes, informal learning opportunities and social programming.
To foster a resilient culture of communication across UCLA’s campus and community.
UCLA has a vast resource of leaders, experts and scholars who embody the DaD values of intellectual engagement, curiosity, empathy, active listening and critical thinking.
This initiative brings these groups together to share best practices and make these valuable opportunities for learning and connection more accessible to our community.
To foster a resilient culture of communication across UCLA’s campus and community.
Support students to gain the critical skills for engaging across difference and connecting them to opportunities to experience and create dialogue opportunities with their peers.
Support faculty and instructors at UCLA to facilitate across difference in the classroom. Currently, this includes an intensive faculty fellowship program and the sponsorship of a range of 1-unit fiat lux courses.
Build the campus’s collective muscle for navigating differences by providing a series of workshops, advanced trainings, and train the trainer opportunities. DaD has partnered with the nationally acclaimed nonprofit Resetting the Table to bring its field-tested methodology for engaging across charged differences to campus.
Dialogue Resources Clearinghouse
DaD is also developing a digital clearinghouse of existing activities, programs, experts, and opportunities related to dialogue and bridge building both on and off-campus.
Email: kindness@g.ucla.edu
Media Inquiries: bramos@stratcomm.ucla.edu
Email: kindness@g.ucla.edu
Media Inquiries: bramos@stratcomm.ucla.edu